I am a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science and a Visiting Professor of Philosophy at Ghent University. My primary research and teaching areas are: history and philosophy of the social sciences, social epistemology and general philosophy of science. My systematic work in philosophy has been centred on explanatory and scientific pluralism, that is, elaborating our understanding of scientific pluralism in relation with more traditional topics in philosophy of (social) science like the theory of scientific explanation, causality, social ontology, scientific objectivity and values in science. In my research, I try to connect these philosophical problems to actual scientific practice in political science, economics, history, sociology - both historically and contemporary - analysing the sources of plurality and how plurality has been (and should be) dealt with. Paying close attention to the historical and social embeddedness of science in society (and how this is linked to plurality) also inspired my thinking, writing and teaching about the deep entanglements between science and democracy, e.g., in citizen sciences, the co-production of knowledge, epistocracy vs epistemic democracy, aiming to advance a social epistemology of citizen participation in science and society.